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TODD POLITICAL FORECASTERS WERE
PWRONG ABOUT MANY CRITICAL STATES
PTHIS PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
PACTION 7 NEWS REPORTER CHRIS
PGUARDARO SPOKE WITH THE
P"ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL'S"
PWASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF MICHAEL
PCOLEMAN ABOUT WHY THE RACE IS SO
PCLOSE.
PREPORTER: PRESIDENTIAL
PCANDIDATES NEED 270 ELECTORAL
PVOTES TO WIN.
PDAYS BEFORE THE ELECTION, ABC
PNEWS PREDICTED HILLARY CLINTON
PWOULD HAVE 274 ELECTORAL VOTES
PIN STATES WHERE SHE WAS FAVORE
PBUT THE STATES DIDN'T VOTE AS
PPREDICTED.
P>> I THINK WE SAW SEVERAL STATES
PTONIGHT THAT WERE NAIL-BITERS,
PCLIFF-HANGERS, PEOPLE DIDN'T
PKNOW WHO WAS GOING TO WIN THE
PSTATE.
PREPORTER MICHAEL COLEMAN IS THE
PALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL'S WASHINGTON
PBUREAU CHIEF.
PHE SAYS HISTORICALLY DEMOCRA
PSTATES LIKE MICHIGAN MADE THE
PRACE FOR THE WHITE HOUSE
PINTERESTING.
P>> WE DIDN'T TALK A WHOLE L
PABOUT MICHIGAN BEFORE THIS
PELECTION NIGHT.
PAS WE SAW THE EARLY RESULTS
PCOMING IN, TRUMP WAS WINNING
PBIG, AND THEN EVERYBODY WAS
PLOOKING AT WAYNE COUNTY,
PDETROIT.
PREPORTER: COLEMAN ALSO SAYS
PRISING HEALTH CARE PREMIUMS
PPLAYED A BIGGER ROLE IN HOW
PPEOPLE VOTED THAN POLITICAL
PANALYSTS PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT.
P>> I THINK OBAMACARE WAS A MUCH
PBIGGER FATOR THAN SOME PEOPLE
PHAVE EVEN TALKED ABOUT.
PI'VE HEARD FROM VOTERS, AND
PREADERS, AND THINGS THAT ARE
PAPPALLED BY THE AMOUNT THEIR
PPREMIUMS HAVE INCREASED.
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